Moong Dal Ladoo | Payatham Paruppu Laddu | Diwali Sweets
Moong dal ladoo, a quick and easy dessert made with less than 5 ingredients. This simple dessert takes less time and effort, and spot on the taste.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian, South-Indian
Keyword Dessert with less than 5 ingredients, Easy diwali sweet recipe, easy ladoo recipe, How to make laddu with moong dal, How to make payatham paruppu laddoo, Moong dal recipe, Payatham urundai recipe, Quick laddu
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 18people
Calories 67kcal
Equipment
Heavy bottom pan for roasting
Ingredients
½cupmoong dal flourStore-bought
6tablespoonpowdered sugaryou can also use grated jaggery
⅓cupmelted ghee
¼teaspooncardamom powder
3tablespoonof chopped nutsi used a combo of Pistachios and toasted coconut
Instructions
Measure the store bought moong dal flour, sieve it well to a get free flowing, lump free flour.
Heat a heavy bottom pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee to it. When the ghee melts, add the flour, roast it in a low flame, until it changes to golden color and nice aroma emanates. Take care not to over-roast or burn it.
If you are adding desiccated coconut to the ladoo, then add it to the hot flour and turn off the stove. The coconut will get nice and toasty in the residue heat.
Transfer the toasted flour to a flat plate. Let it cool down well.
Now to this toasted and cooled flour, add powdered sugar, cardamom powder and chopped nuts, mix well to get a well combined mixture. (see notes)
Add a teaspoon of ghee at time to this mixture and gather it to form a ball/ladoo. Arrange it on a flat plate. Repeat the same with the rest of the mixture.
To the above measurements i got about 18 ladoos of the size of a ping-pong ball.If you make it slightly bigger, you might get about 12-15 ladoos
Notes
You can replace the powdered sugar in the recipe with grated jaggery.
If replacing with granulated sugar or jaggery, then take the cool down flour along with jaggery or granulated sugar in a mixer, pulse grind it to get a uniform mixture. Then transfer it to a flat plate and proceed to add ghee and make ladoos.
if planning to make this vegan, you can use any nut butter. If using nut butter, then add that too to the mixer, pulse grind to get a combined mixture then proceed to make ladoos.